I'm a bit tired so this is going to be a short entry today.
But I had to write because I'm getting the sense that a lot of journalists are leaving, not the business, the country.
At my last count, former Sun Sports columnist Paul Oberjuerge went to United Arab Emirates (Abu Dhabi); former Daily Bulletin reporter Todd Ruiz works in Bangkok; former Daily Bulletin editor Rob Wagner writes and teaches in Saudi Arabia; former PE staffer Tom Griggs, left to Japan to join Stars and Stripes (though I'm not sure he is still with them.)
Now I see that John Miller, a city editor from the Los Angeles Daily News, is leaving to teach high school English in Kuwait.
Are we all that fed up? I think most of us are. I know that if someone offered me or Bill a job in Costa Rica, we'd start looking at the cost of airfare.
Am I thinking of leaving? Well not right now. Patch seems to be holding its own much to the disgust of members of the news hierarchy.
So where does that leave us? Becoming a more generic form of media rather than members of the press. That's my fear. We're moving out and money makers like TMZ (Michael Jackson story,) The National Enquirer (John Edwards story) and even Facebook (viral video of a cat playing the piano and a woman weeping over an In & Out burger) are moving in.
That's an exaggerated fear, perhaps. But it just feels like all the of journalism we molded and created in this country is better appreciated and welcomed elsewhere.
To me that's a sad thought.
